Lyrics Arctic Monkeys - If You Were There, Beware

"If You Were There, Beware"

If you were there, beware
The serpent soul pinchers
Three hundred and fifty no
thank yous and nobody flinches
Go on girl go on, give us something gruesome
We require your grief,
the thugs help the thieves
As they're trying to rob the words
from her gob and
Take the source of the innocents

If you were there, beware
The serpent soul pinchers
Can't you sense she was never meant
To fill column inches
And you've had enough,
what you're trying to dig up
Isn't there to be dug,
the thieves help the thugs
As they're trying beat
the good grace of a sweetheart

Out to the point she'll comply

Why leave her on her own
If I'd have known then
I wouldn't have said it
I wouldn't have said it
if I would have known
Why leave her on her own
If I predicted tears
then I wouldn't have said it
I wouldn't have said it
if I would have known

There's a circle of witches,
ambitiously vicious they are
Our attempts to remind them
of reason won't get us that far
I don't know what it is that they want
I don't know what it is that they want
But I haven't got it to give
She hasn't got it to give